RAMMSTEIN · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Zeig dich

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-48, 57-72 and 97-116 -- 37.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
62/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 165 BPM
ZEIG DICH · BAR 33

It is played on hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- and the thing that decides that is how many notes a second it asks for.

The whole song is 62 out of 100, so the beat is not the hard part: what costs you is everything around it, the joins and the fills.

How to get it under your hands

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 124 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 3 of them. Nothing is a matter of opinion: each rung has a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next one.

  1. Skeleton. Only the notes that land on a beat. The point is to feel where this bar stands.
  2. Kick and snare, whole. The feet and the snare exactly as written, hi-hat pulled back to quarter notes. This is the part to know by heart.
  3. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 124, 144 and 165 BPM, and the gate at each one is 8 loops in a row with no wrong note and no wobble in the time.

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Questions

What drum beat does Zeig dich use?

A one-bar groove on hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 165 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 37.1% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 33-48, 57-72 and 97-116. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 11 times over the song.

Is the beat in Zeig dich hard?

40 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED